AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. The album has been described as his most personal work yet and features guest appearances from Brian Eno , Natasha Khan and the Leytonstone City Mission Choir.
Damon planned to perform the piece in European concert halls in , but the tour was postponed to due to the COVID pandemic. The album was released on 12th November The group's last album, Merrie Land, was produced by Tony Visconti and released in Although officially announced in , the group had been jamming together since 's Africa Express gigs.
Opera and theatre scores. The opera debuted at the Manchester International Festival and the album based on the score was released the next year. In the summer of , the opera was revived for a three-week residency in New York. The soundtrack for the opera was released in the following year.
The musical is a very modern take on Alice in Wonderland and is directed by Rufus Norris. Three shows took place at the same theatre in For the full list and details of Damon's musical appearances outside Blur, see Damon Albarn Discography. Song List also lists appearances outside Blur. Updates About Search Contact. Damon Albarn Vocals, guitar, keyboards Think Tank promo shot Around the time of moving Damon was spending three months in Turkey with family friends. When he came back he began studying violin and piano and got interested in drama.
Because of his unconventional background he was considered weird and vain and often got called "posh stroke gay" at Stanway Comprehensive. At the time he was really keen on drama and took part in many school plays and quickly became one of the school's "stars".
Damon was also interested in composing music and one of his compositions won a heat in the nationwide Young Composer of the Year competition. He has later claimed that classical composer Kurt Weill 's music had a more effect on his musical development than any pop song writer. One of the first bands Damon was involved along with Graham was The Aftermath, which didn't get anywhere.
After the completion of the reunion dates, Albarn told Q that the band had no intention of recording or touring live again. He said, "I just can't do it anymore", and explained that the main motivation for participating in the reunion was to repair his relationship with Coxon, which succeeded.
In April , Blur released their first new recording since , "Fool's Day" in April as part of the Record Store Day event as a vinyl record limited to copies; it was later made available as a free download on their website. Later that month, Albarn and Coxon premiered a new track together live, "Under the Westway".
In April, the band announced that a box-set entitled Blur 21 —containing all seven Blur studio albums, four discs of unreleased rarities and three DVDs—would be released in July. Blur entered the studio early that year to record material for a new album, but in May producer William Orbit told the NME that Albarn had halted recording.
Blur's official Twitter and Facebook pages announced that the band would release two singles "The Puritan" and "Under the Westway" on 2 July. That August, Blur headlined a show at Hyde Park for the Summer Olympics closing ceremony which was followed by a world tour the very next year.
On 19 February Blur announced on social media that they would be releasing their eighth studio album on 27 April, titled The Magic Whip , Blur's first album in 12 years and first in 16 years in their original lineup.
The interview was published in Deadline magazine, home of Hewlett's comic strip, Tank Girl. Hewlett initially thought Albarn was "arsey, a wanker" and despite becoming one of the band's acquaintances, he often didn't get on with its members, especially after he started going out with Coxon's ex-girlfriend, Jane Olliver. Hewlett had recently broken up with Olliver and Albarn was also at the end of his highly publicised relationship with Justine Frischmann of Elastica.
The idea to create Gorillaz came about when the two were watching MTV: "If you watch MTV for too long, it's a bit like hell—there's nothing of substance there. So we got this idea for a cartoon band, something that would be a comment on that," Hewlett has said. The band's music is a collaboration between various musicians, Albarn being the only permanent musical contributor. Their style is broadly alternative rock, but with a large number of other influences including Britpop, dub, hip-hop, and pop music.
In , the band's eponymous debut album sold over seven million copies, and featured hits such as the songs "" and "Clint Eastwood," earning them an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize , but the nomination was later withdrawn at the band's request.
Their second studio album, Demon Days , was released in and included the singles "Feel Good Inc. Demon Days went five times platinum in the UK, double platinum in the United States and earned five Grammy Award nominations for and won one of them in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category. In November , they staged the first-ever live performances of Demon Days Live involving many of the artists who had played on the successful Demon Days album, as a launch event for the festival.
Gorillaz released two B-sides compilations and a remix album. The combined sales of Gorillaz and Demon Days had, by , exceeded 15 million albums. Gorillaz released their third studio album, Plastic Beach , in early , which was received with high praise.
In December , the group released an album called The Fall which was recorded over 32 days during their North American tour. In November , the band announced that, on 23 February , Gorillaz would release a new line of Converse sneakers designed by Jamie Hewlett. Gorillaz will release a new one off single to accompany with the release of these shoes as a part of Converse's "Three Artists, One Song" campaign.
The track is available for free download in Journeys stores by scanning the QR Code on display items. An explicit, 12 Minute long version of the single was made available for streaming in March. Hewlett directed a new Music Video for the single, featuring animated versions of the two collaborators on this track.
Murdoc also stated that the music video featured the Gorillaz' new HQ, for which they have abandoned Plastic Beach. In a interview, Albarn talked about the unlikelihood of any future releases from the Gorillaz. Albarn later rescinded this claim, stating "When Jamie [Hewlett] and I have worked out our differences, I'm sure we'll make another record.
While promoting his debut album, Everyday Robots , in an interview with NME , Albarn said: "I can definitely see another Gorillaz-esque record at some point, yeah.
That will almost definitely happen. The only thing really that defines a Gorillaz record in my head is when I just play most of it on keyboards. There are points in everyone's relationship where they fall out with people that they're close to and then they reconcile, hopefully, and actually, you know, the relationship's probably in a healthier place as a result of that. In October , Albarn revealed that both he and Hewlett are working on a new Gorillaz album. Albarn said: "I'm in the very early days on a new Gorillaz record.
So far, it's really fast, and it's got quite a lot of energy. I've been stuck on piano, somewhere off Broadway, for years now. I want to go somewhere completely opposite of that. In , Albarn released an EP called Democrazy , which was a compilation of demos he recorded in various hotel rooms during the United States portion of Think Tank' s tour. During September , Albarn had confirmed he was working on solo studio album to be released under his own name, the concept of which is supposed to revolve around "empty club music".
He also said he would be taking his album on tour, and that he would play songs from all of his other bands, including Blur and Gorillaz. On 3 December , Damon performed various songs for his upcoming solo album in a private gig at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. On 11 December , Albarn released a second teaser trailer of his upcoming solo album on his official YouTube channel, which he had also shared on his Facebook and Twitter pages.
This trailer featured a preview of a song for the solo album and revealed that the album is set for release during In an interview with Bat for Lashes, Natasha Khan revealed that she was also going to be a collaborator for Albarn's upcoming solo album.
Everyday Robots was released on 25 April to generally positive reviews. The album peaked at No. It was nominated for the Mercury Prize for Best Album. Albarn released Mali Music in , recorded in Mali, during a trip he made to support Oxfam in He has visited Nigeria to record music with African drummer Tony Allen. The Congolese band Tout Puissant Mukalo joined them as well.
All proceeds will benefit Oxfam's work in the DRC. The album was released by Warp Records. The first single by the line-up, "Herculean", was released in late October , and peaked at No. A second single, "Kingdom of Doom", and the band's debut album were then released in January That single fared slightly better than "Herculean", peaking at No. He also worked with Syrian rapper and friend Eslam Jawaad on the song "Mr.
Whippy", though the song does not appear on the album it is a B-Side on the Herculean single. Albarn has stated that he is not responsible for the name; someone in Lagos did the sleeve design and that's the name it was given. Albarn has claimed that he's content with the outcome, as trying to come up with band names is difficult for him. The band performed together for the first time on 28 October in Cork, Ireland, as part of the annual Cork Jazz Festival.
A full tour is not expected any time soon due to conflicting schedules, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' tour continuing until Their debut album was released on 26 March More recently, on Massive Attack's Heligoland album, he sang on the track "Saturday Come Slow" and contributed keyboards to the track "Splitting the Atom".
Albarn also produced soul singer Bobby Womack's twenty-seventh studio album The Bravest Man in the Universe , released in Albarn appeared with Womack at the Glastonbury Festival Albarn composed the score with collaboration by Michael Nyman for the movie Ravenous , and was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Music for his work. In their first major work together since Gorillaz, Albarn and Hewlett, along with acclaimed Chinese theatre and opera director Chen Shi-zheng, adapted for stage the Chinese story Journey to the West as Monkey: Journey to the West , which received its world premiere as the opening show of the Manchester International Festival, on 28 June at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.
In collaboration with theatre director Rufus Norris, Albarn has created an opera for the Manchester International Festival based on the life of Elizabethan scientist John Dee and titled Doctor Dee.
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